Word: falling
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Higher taxes have tightened the pinch. The acclaimed Reagan tax cuts of 1986, which reduced marginal income taxes, merely shifted the burden to Social Security taxes, which fall heavily on low- and middle-income families. These payroll taxes were jacked up 24% during the 1980s. The true marginal tax rate is now higher for a couple making $14,000 a year than it is for a couple making $326,000 a year...
...that agonizing choice is made no easier by vast expense. I try to keep up with the mode, and it costs -- just ask my husband. But the skyrocketing prices are pushing fashion beyond the reach of willing buyers like me. I was leafing through a fall fashion magazine the other day, plotting my seasonal purchases. There was a charming outfit by a no-name designer in delicious shades of pink and red (this is the year of color, remember): mohair coat, $725; cropped jacket, $575; knit dress, $230. The total for the ensemble: ! $1,530. That's not including...
These families generally have three things in common. The parents are not raising their children the way they themselves were raised. None have any idea how it will all turn out. And all live in perpetual fear that some piece of their carefully crafted child-care structure will fall out of place and bring the fragile edifice of their lives tumbling down like a toddler's tower of blocks...
There seem to be fresh winds blowing across the church. Things thought to be impossible a short time ago are coming to be," preached Barbara Harris in the fall of 1988. She was referring to her own imminent consecration as the first woman bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church. But traditionalists weren't upset just about Harris' sex. She also happened to be a black, non- college-educated divorcee with some fairly radical beliefs. While still a laywoman, Harris led the procession at the 1974 protest ritual in which her church's first women priests were illicitly ordained...
...instrument is played by Jane Ira Bloom, 35, a jazz virtuoso who was the first musician commissioned to create a work for NASA's art program. Witnessing a Discovery shuttle launch close up inspired her to compose a four-part suite entitled Rediscovery, which premiered at Cape Canaveral last fall. Long fascinated by the links between music and motion, Bloom has also composed scores for the famed Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master's in sax in 1977. She uses a synthesizer, controlled by foot pedals, to amplify her ethereal solos into...